To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEven without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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To be is to stand for.
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